HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 267% 
the floor of the House at the time. There was a good deal of objec- 
tion to it, and it went out on a point of order in the House, and was 
put back in the Senate; and it was predicted then that if one should 
be made a bureau the others would be eventually, and it was simply a 
raise of all salaries. Without proposing any increase of salaries, that 
objection, you see, was well taken, for it has come to that. 
Mr. Howarp. Exactly. Allow me to suggest that there are only two 
other branches of scientific work in the Department which have a 
claim to bureau organization, and those are Biology and Entomology. 
The others have already been made into bureaus. I think it would 
nake a better feeling in the staff of workers also. They would feel 
that they were on a better plane; that the service was a more dignified 
one, and I think possibly it would allow for a better organization. 
Men in charge of certain specific branches of the work could be made 
chiefs of sections. 
Mr. Apams. It would attract a better grade of talent? 
Mr. Howarp. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Burirson. It would be a recognition of the merits of the work 
already done? 
Mr. Howarp. Certainly; it would be taken that way. 1f the com- 
mittee thought fit to recommend it, the only changes in the statutory 
roll would be—— 
The Cuarrman. What is the salary of Doctor Galloway now? 
Mr. Howarp. $4,000. The only changes that would bring about 
would be an increase in the salary of the chief of Bureau and of the 
first assistant 
Mr. Burueson. Involving about how much a year, Doctor. 
Mr. Howarp. Involving $1,500. 
The Cuatrman. An increase of $1,400? 
Mr. Howarp. Yes. 
The Cuatrman. What did you get formerly, Doctor? 
Mr. Howarp. $2,750; that would be $750 increase; in all $1,450. 
The Cuarrman. Now passing on to the general clause, the committee 
will notice there is quite a change. All that in italics is new—no, I 
will not say it is new, it is apparently a rearrangement of the clause. 
They are carrying out the idea of sections. Here is the way the 
paragraph reads: 
General Expenses, Bureau of Entomology: Promotion of economic entomology; 
investigating the history and habits of insects injurious and beneficial to agriculture, 
horticulture, and arboriculture; ascertaining the best means of destroying those 
found to be injurious, including an investigation into the ravages of insects affecting 
field crops; (a) southern section—cotton, tobacco, sugar-cane; (b) northern section— 
cereals and forage plants; investigations of the insects affecting orchard fruits; (a) 
northern section—deciduous orchard fruits; (b) southern section—citrus and other 
tropical fruits; investigations of the insects affecting small fruit and truck crops; 
forest and forest products and stored products; investigations of insects in relation 
to diseases of man and other animals, and as animal parasites; miscellaneous insect 
investigations, including the introduction of beneficial insects, quarantine work, and 
the study of fungus and other diseases of insects; for the expenses of insect labora- 
tory, collections, and experimental garden; investigations in apiculture and in silk 
culture; investigations of insecticides and insecticide machinery; * * * 
Mr. Scorr. Is all that new, or simply a rearrangement? 
The Cuarrman. That has been going on all the time. 
Mr. Howarp. It is a systemization of the work, and the arranging 
of it in such a way as to indicate our purpose of employing good men 
and putting them in charge of each of these branches of the work. 
